As a Christian do you believe in.....(Part 1)

[Katzpur]

Jojo, the question was not "Is Jesus Christ the same individual as God?" It was, "Is Jesus Christ the Son of God?" In reading through your response, I didn't see an answer to that question.

By the way, would you mind going over to the Jehovah's Witnesses DIR and responding to my post, "Accurate or Inaccurate?" I'm still waiting for a member of your church to answer it, and would appreciate your input very much.

 

[elsyjoy]

Yes Jesus Christ is the son of God who came to the world to takeaway the sin of the man kind.Who ever belives in Him will have internal life.

 

[rockstarwife628]

I am a Christian, and I don't believe Jesus to be literally the "Son" of God. I don't believe him to be any more a child of God than we are *all* children of God. I believe he shows us a revealed and fulfilled potential, what we are to strive towards and emulate in our cultivation of our faith and humanity.

I also believe that the way Christians today understand the term "Son of God" is a lot different than the way it was traditionally understood by Jews in his time, or in the times when the various books of the OT were written...

*edited to add my denomination : I am a Methodist, as in which church I currently hold membership in, but I consider myself a Christian Universalist (which isn't really a denomination, but a description, just like one can be fundamentalist and be Baptist or Pentecostal, etc)

 

[Katzpur]

I am a Christian, and I don't believe Jesus to be literally the "Son" of God.

What does the phrase "Only Begotten" mean to you, rockstarwife? It is applied to Jesus Christ and to no one else, so it has to set Him apart in some way. How do you see Him as the "Only Begotten" but not literally as "the Son of God"?

*edited to add my denomination : I am a Methodist, as in which church I currently hold membership in, but I consider myself a Christian Universalist (which isn't really a denomination, but a description, just like one can be fundamentalist and be Baptist or Pentecostal, etc)

Over on another forum I post on, there is an ongoing (ad nauseum) discussion on universalism between "Christians" who are at one another's throats like a pack of mad dogs. I'm glad to see another universalist here. Unlike most people who consider themselves to be universalists but who belong to denominations where they are in the minority, Mormons consider themselves to be universalists (although they don't generally use that term) but are united by that belief as one of the fundamental doctrines of our Church.

 

[Muffled]

Jesus is the Son of God. There is none other exactly like Him because He is the spirit of God in a human like body.

No Jesus is not a son of God in the sense of a physical father having sex with a physical mother to produce a male child.

I am non-denominational because I belong to Jesus and He is non-denominational. I was brought up American Baptist and currently attend a Friends Meeting (Quakers).

 

[Pegg]

Jesus is the Son of God.
He is a son in the sense that God created him just as God created other living beings like himself. Jesus is special though because he is the very 'first' of Gods creations.